Sunday, June 8, 2008

The Grand Old Seniors

Fitzgerald's Last Hurrah: A Sort of Creative Brood

What Dartmouth Winter Carnival represented—and remember how we tried to analyze this, Scott, in our futile pursuit of a suitable Winter Carnival theme—was a tribal fertility rite. That was the essence of Carnival, we decided, taking its character from the self-enforced isolation of thousands of young males living together on by far the most isolated campus in the Ivy League.

Our History Across the Landscape: The Architecture of Dartmouth

Dartmouth ranks among the oldest colleges in America, and the deep sense of history and loyalty shared by alumni for their College over the centuries reflects this. Yet in terms of physical buildings, little remains that connects the students of today with Eleazar Wheelock’s wooden college.

The Wright Retrospective

Editor’s Note: James Wright recently announced his intention to step down as President of the College. The following is a short retrospective of the major events and controversies of his presidency.

TDR Interview: Professor Venkatesan

Editor’s Note: The following are excerpts from our interview with Professor Priya Venkatesan ’90. For the full interview, see our website.

Right or Left?

Little effort has been made to tie Dartmouth’s alumni revolution to larger trends in higher education, but an attentive reader does not have to look far to find shared ideas.

Don't Get Converted, Stay

Editor’s note: Frost ‘96 delivered this commencement address in 1955.The Dartmouth Review offers the College’s graduating seniors the wisdom of Frost’s words as the seniors prepare for their departure into the real world.

The Impresario: WFB Jr.

Without Buckley it never could have happened. As Boswell said at the end of his Life of Johnson, he has left a gap which nothing can fill up.

WFB, RIP

Who blends the serious and the entertaining as beautifully, now that he’s left?

Goodbye, My Friend... Larry

It is hard to imagine any other College administrator, and Larry James was definitely one of those, and one of the most competent besides, who would have put up with the hassle and potential toxicity of the whole event — or, for that matter, with the hassle of running a College cafeteria without becoming a jerk.

Col. James A. Donovan ’39 Passes Away

The Dartmouth Review extends its condolences to the family of our inimitable cartoonist and supporter.

The New President of Dartmouth

Editor’s Note: The following is a reprint of an editorial about the then new President Wright. It was published on September 30, 1998 by The Dartmouth Review.

Mike Gerson, You’re My Hero!

What is a College Education?

Editor’s note: The Dartmouth Review presents the following article for graduating seniors to consider: did you receive a good college education while at Dartmouth?

Last Word

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
—Stefan Zweig

Barrett's Mixology: Old Fashioned

2 oz bourbon whiskey
2 dashes Angostura® bitters
1 splash water
1 tsp sugar
1 piece lemon-peel

Dissolve a small lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey-glass; add two dashes Angostura bitters, a small piece of ice, a piece lemon-peel, one jigger whiskey. Mix with small bar-spoon and serve, leaving spoon in glass.